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With approval ratings in the 30s, GOP lawmakers hope to align themselves with the popular Obama administration, while criticizing the work of the Democratic Congress.

There has been some confusion for years over what exactly waterboarding has meant in practice. Does it induce the sensation of drowning? Or does it actually

Or not. Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) just shot out a statement declaring that he has absolutely no reason to question President Obama’s citizenship. I

A feud between Rep.

Billions of dollars of stimulus funds created in the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act remain in state coffers, Alec MacGillis reports at The

Sure enough, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning that the greatest threat to the United States

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has sent a special investigation team to Entergy’s Palisades nuclear power plant to examine the circumstances around the plant’s latest unplanned shutdown. Palisades 798 MW pressurized water reactor, located about 70 miles southwest of Grand Rapids on Lake Michigan, abruptly powered down on Sunday night when an electrical malfunction took out the power supply to several safety-related valves and switches. “The issue involved plant workers who were performing maintenance activities on an electrical panel when a small metal piece located inside the breaker panel came into contact with another metal piece and caused an arc,” the NRC said Wednesday.

Maybe there’s a way to reduce our gasoline consumption without buying everyone a Prius after all. The Department of Transportation issued new fuel economy

Brazen: Deputy Mayor Azizullah Yarmal walked into a mosque in central Kandahar, turned toward Mecca and began to pray to Allah. As he reached the point where

Cue the OH NOES. From Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ testimony on the defense budget today: Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates suggested on Thursday that as many

At 6:52 a.m. EST this morning, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin posted a 1,141-word Facebook post with an accompanying eight-minute video responding to the

Writing at Slate, Daniel Gross wonders why Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke doesn’t seem to care much about high unemployment: In a speech earlier this month,

Three veteran FBI interrogators, concerned by Attorney General Eric Holder’s proposal to expand the public safety exceptions in the Miranda warning during

Peter Bergen, the only western reporter to have interviewed Osama bin Laden, reads my post about Obama’s rendition hints and emails: I think the situation

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Latino students in Texas still lag behind their Anglo peers in several important measures involving college completion, according to a new report from a

The Obama administration has proposed cutting funding for programs that go directly to senior services in the 2012 proposed budget, meaning many older Americans

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Florida about $1.8 million to help the state sign up more children for health insurance.

An omnibus bill drafted by Legislative Republicans was greatly denounced Tuesday at a public hearing on the eve of the Iowa House’s debate on it. In a two-hour public hearing in the Iowa House chamber, representatives heard mostly pleas from individuals and groups who do not want to see cuts or reduced spending on education, tobacco use prevention and the Health and Human Services budget. The omnibus bill wraps several pieces of legislation into a two-year budget proposal

There’s some head-spinning intellectual dishonesty at work in the first two major-media columns that argue, counterintuitively, that Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen